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Collected Short Stories: Volume 3

Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 - Paperback

by W. Somerset Maugham
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Availability:In StockContributor:W. Somerset MaughamSeries:Classic, 20th-Century, PenguinAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1993-06-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140185911ISBN-10:140185917UPC:9780140185911Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:7.56 x 5.42 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCGQH4DP4Q
This third volume of Maugham's stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140185911ISBN-10:140185917UPC:9780140185911Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:7.56 x 5.42 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCGQH4DP4Q

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, Of Human Bondage (1915), and with The Moon and Sixpence (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured.

His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, A Man of Honour (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with Sheppey (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, sub-titled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections.

W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as On a Chinese Screen (1922) and Don Fernando (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949). He became a Companion of Honour in 1954.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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